Example sentences of "and [vb base] herself [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 2 | Going into the hall , she flung on a coat , pocketed the keys lying on the silver salver , and let herself out into the night . |
| 3 | She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door . |
| 4 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |
| 5 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 6 | She had no energy to swim in the water and pull herself out on the small strip of toilet paper left from the last flushing of the toilet . |